Speaker 1: At the gallup Wow Fort Laramie.
Speaker 2: Fort Laramie, starring Raymond Burr as Captain lee Quins, especially
transcribed tales of the dark and tragic ground of the
wild frontier, the saga of fighting men who rode the
rim of Empire, and the dramatic story of lee Quin's
captain of cavalry.
Speaker 3: All right, you man, Eddie, I said, Eddie, what's the.
Speaker 4: Caval We're going to do the wind glory today. Sergeant.
Speaker 5: I'm glad you spoke up. Southie.
Speaker 6: You in private Plover there have just volunteered to make
mud bricks for the new powder magazine built. No, Sergeant,
Me and poor were working out adobey all day yesterday,
another month.
Speaker 5: You ought to be finished.
Speaker 4: I didn't join this army to make mud bricks.
Speaker 5: You refusing in order, Suthie.
Speaker 4: But your shoes on, Plover. Let's get going.
Speaker 6: The rest of you man will finish cleaning this barracks
and fall out in ten minutes.
Speaker 4: I suppose you're taking them buffalo hunting.
Speaker 6: Each man will go to supply and get a picker
of shovel.
Speaker 5: We're building road today.
Speaker 3: That's enough, I said.
Speaker 6: Ten minutes you line up, smiling and happy, or I'll
work you all night.
Speaker 4: I got your shoes on plover for sure.
Speaker 7: What I need shoes for. I'll on my hands and
knees most of the time.
Speaker 4: Ain't it a shamed men like us doing that kind
of work.
Speaker 7: I'm ready, sutie.
Speaker 4: Let's go.
Speaker 8: Ten minutes, soldiers, and don't forget them shovels.
Speaker 7: I reckon any outfit's got to do sometime, and garrison SHOOTI.
Speaker 8: We've been in garrison freema months. It's got me talking
to myself.
Speaker 7: Well, least wise we ain't getting shot at by no
wild injury.
Speaker 4: What's a cavalry ferve? It ain't to get shot at
and to do a little shooting itself.
Speaker 7: All engines around here is peaceable, least wires has been
the last few months. Reservation engines them shine ought to
be ashamed of theirselves sitting around watching the.
Speaker 4: Women do the work, waiting to be fed by the government.
Where's the gumption anyway?
Speaker 3: Wow?
Speaker 5: Good thing they is peaceable.
Speaker 7: I think damn engine's going a terror makes it bad
for everybody.
Speaker 4: They going to tear and get us out of the garrison.
Speaker 7: Well they ain't going, so you just might as well
face up to it.
Speaker 4: I could make them go. Clover, Oh, now stop that tall.
I've told you how I could make them go.
Speaker 5: Now, look you here, sultie, I ain't even gonna listen
to you.
Speaker 4: What you could be shot for. Just what you're thinking,
nobody never know. You know you're crazy, being stuck here
and a fort so long.
Speaker 8: It's driven you plump crazy, your mouse getting awful big.
Speaker 7: Now don't get on the prod.
Speaker 9: Okay here, I'll tell you what Tonight, You and me
gonna sneak off the post and we'll go into town
and have.
Speaker 7: Us a drink for that guy you like.
Speaker 5: That elbraid? And how about that said.
Speaker 4: Never you mind elebraiding. You called me crazy? Oh I
didn't mean nothing, but I ain't crazy, and I'll prove
it to you.
Speaker 9: You put that nine away, Southie.
Speaker 4: You got a knife, Get it out, No, get it out.
I said, I'm gonna cut you, plover. I'll do it.
Speaker 9: All right, that's how you want it. Now, there's my knife.
Now you cut me, Southie. Come on, now, cut me.
Speaker 7: I'll lay your whole face something Sita all at you man,
LIEUTENNI cyberts.
Speaker 4: You don't mean nothing to me.
Speaker 5: Cap quitch with Sudie, watch.
Speaker 3: Your fever, rip your belly over you try it out again.
Speaker 4: Stop that man.
Speaker 5: Put those knives away.
Speaker 4: It's a fair fight. You got now, rots, Do as
I say, Sothie, you cut me, I'll put mine away.
Speaker 5: I can't quit a lesson he does, all right, Susy,
you too, plover. I know you're on edge being in
garrison so long, but that's part of soldiering, and so
is keeping your temper. I put those knives away before
we all get in trouble.
Speaker 9: There's mine, all right, You here to Captain Southie, there's mine.
Speaker 5: You men on detail.
Speaker 4: Making mud pies again, Captain.
Speaker 5: Then get to it. If there's any more fighting, you'll
go to the guardhouse. That clear, Yes, sir, move out.
Speaker 6: Those men are crazy enough to have stuck your captain
getting between them that way.
Speaker 5: One of them might have stuck me, mister Sebert's not
both of them. They need action, Captain. They're soldiers, not laborers. Yeah,
they're even forgetting to think like soldiers. There's going to
be more trouble like this, mister Seberts a lot more. Captain.
Speaker 10: Quince's reporting, Sir, at ease, Captain, how's b company getting along?
Speaker 5: Major dagger. I guess b companies getting along about the
way you'd expect, Like those two men of yours last
week who were going at each other with knives. I
didn't know you'd heard about that, Major.
Speaker 10: I heard about it. I also heard how you failed
to punish him. With all due respect, sir, it's my company,
and you know I never interfere on a company level.
Speaker 5: I'd transfer out of here if you did. I'm sure
you would. It isn't easy, is it, Lee? Oh, much
more of this. I'll be looking for a good fight myself.
Speaker 10: Enforced inactivity the bane of the cavalry that in the
salt pork diet.
Speaker 5: Two more of my men came down with scurvy today. Major,
That's what I wanted to see you about. Lee. Uh,
how'd you like to go on a buffalo hunt? Buffalo hunt?
I thought we couldn't.
Speaker 10: Well, I know, general orders are to avoid antagonizing the
Indians by hunting buffalo in their territory, and.
Speaker 5: We're sitting right in the middle of their territory.
Speaker 10: Twenty two cases of scurvy are enough higher orders at
the hold Fort Laramie with a full complement of cavalry.
Captain Quinch you think you can bring in some fresh
meat without starting.
Speaker 5: A new Indian war. I can try, Sir. I'm depending
on you.
Speaker 10: Yes, Sir, you'll take fifteen men, two wagons, and six mules.
You'll leave one half hour after revely tomorrow morning. You'll
return Saturday by sundown without fail, exactly one week from today.
Speaker 5: Any questions, no, Sir.
Speaker 10: I hope you'll see fit to include those two men,
Soothie and Plover in your party.
Speaker 5: I intend to, sir as skinners and move out.
Speaker 7: Hey, Soothie, I feel not so good.
Speaker 4: Clover, I'm bleeding again, or most.
Speaker 3: To the fort.
Speaker 5: There see the man.
Speaker 7: They're standing around waiting on him.
Speaker 8: That's what the captain said, Saturday by sundown.
Speaker 4: We made it.
Speaker 7: Yeah, some of us made it.
Speaker 4: Eight of us, eight out of fifteen.
Speaker 8: The man killed were done, all right, that can sow. Hey, looky,
there's Rador Daggett. He's waiting till you see. No, I
can't see some good, Clover. My head hurts bad. Everything's
kind of swimming.
Speaker 7: You ain't gonna pass out, now, are you?
Speaker 8: The way you got me roped onto this saddle wouldn't
matter none if but it did pass out.
Speaker 4: Well, there's other boys hurt worse than you. I ain't
compleaning bench up.
Speaker 8: Ahead there he passed out. Bout him tied belty down
across his saddle, and I reckon.
Speaker 4: He's dead. We're hair sooth that we're back.
Speaker 8: I can't see nothing but the fort. Oh my head
hurts off.
Speaker 3: Albor Mercelal remained with the wounded. Death came out and
Dodja grs.
Speaker 5: Can DeCamp from the garrison to help these men down.
Get him to the hospital, sir.
Speaker 6: Rest of the stable to horses controlled this miss, Yes,
it to take my horse to the stable for me,
and certainly, Captain, I'd better report to the major there. Yes,
if you care to come by my quarters later, I'll
I'll find us a drink.
Speaker 5: Thank you, sir. Captain Quinch reporting's here here not hurt
Ley knows, sir. What what happened? Cheyenne? Over one hundred
braves hit us dawn two days ago. I had a
guard posted, but they rode right over him. Seven troopers
killed in battle. Another died in the saddle about noon today.
Wagons mules loss. I shan a scout looking for you
never found us? What is it? Major Chyan jumped the reservation.
Speaker 10: Yeah, and nobody knows why they slipped out in the
middle of the night and disappeared.
Speaker 5: I can't figure it. Big Wolf's been as peaceful as
chief as I've known. Big Wolf's young son died a
couple of weeks ago. Maybe that got them started. I
think they go right out to the reservation tomorrow. Take
a look around. What for no particular reason, major, just curious, cap'n.
Speaker 6: I don't think them shying left a single thing out here.
Speaker 5: And they sure stripped the place.
Speaker 3: Course.
Speaker 6: I guess when you ain't got much, you don't leave
nothing behind it.
Speaker 3: Tall Uh.
Speaker 6: Got them all them poles over there with the burying
platforms on him?
Speaker 5: What about him?
Speaker 6: They're all new, Captains, I mean they're empty. There's no
corpses laying on them.
Speaker 3: Can't be new.
Speaker 6: Must have taken they're dead with him, Sergeant. I don't
understand it. I ain't like him. Why would they do that?
Speaker 5: They were in quite a hurry. What do you mean
that grave over there? It's half torn down. Yeah. Kind
of spooky out here, ain't it. Eh. I will stop
in town on the way back, Sergeant.
Speaker 6: Now you're making this detail worthwhile, Captain, I got some
business at the post office. Post office, but I'll meet
you at the saloon when i'm through.
Speaker 4: I'll be there, Captain, you can depend on me.
Speaker 6: Of course, we don't make much money, but soldiern's an
honorable profession. It's better than being a thief.
Speaker 5: I hope I'm not intruding, Sergeant Gors, Captain h Captain Quince.
This here is Ella Braydon. How do you do Ellen,
Please to.
Speaker 11: Meet you, Captain. Don't you sit down?
Speaker 5: No thanks.
Speaker 6: I've been trying to explain to all of it. Soldiers
are just as good as civilians.
Speaker 11: I never said they weren't.
Speaker 5: Sergeant Sergeant Gorse has been the cavalry twenty years. Ellen,
he's still trying to figure out why.
Speaker 11: I think you're right.
Speaker 5: Captain.
Speaker 11: It's all he talks about now that ain't so? I mean,
when you're being a gentleman.
Speaker 5: Sergeant.
Speaker 11: Oh you know what he did a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 5: Now, Eli, what'd you do? Ellen?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 11: He nah, I'm too much of a lady to say it.
Speaker 5: Thank goodness for that, ain't Hella of course gets out
of line just you whack him with a bottle. It's
the only kind of language he understands sometimes.
Speaker 11: Oh, I got something better to whack him with. Captain.
It's carved from solid bone.
Speaker 5: What yeah, I.
Speaker 11: Got it in this sack. Brought it in the short.
Speaker 5: Of the bar.
Speaker 4: Keep.
Speaker 5: Now, what in the world is that? Ella? Let me
see that.
Speaker 11: It's an Indian souvenir of some kind.
Speaker 5: Where'd you get this? Ella?
Speaker 11: Kid at the fort gave it to me. He found
it somewhere.
Speaker 5: I guess who gave it to you. His name is Southie, Soothie. Well,
what's wrong, Captain?
Speaker 3: This is a.
Speaker 5: Cheyenne totem Mellen. I'm gonna have to keep it.
Speaker 11: Oh here, No, that's mine. You get a bu.
Speaker 5: You'll have to find another souvenir. This one's caused enough trouble.
Bought in Captain Quince and then Major. I want to
see Private Southie. Where's his bed at the far end?
Speaker 3: Captain?
Speaker 5: There where Sergeant Corse is? Thank you, Captain, guys. I
love southee.
Speaker 4: Oh, Captain Quince, are you sir?
Speaker 5: How are you feeling? Southie?
Speaker 7: Oh?
Speaker 8: Pretty good, Captain, except for my head aching all the time.
Speaker 5: You'll get over it. I better. I can't stand at
this way, Sir.
Speaker 4: I wish they'd killed me if I gotta go on like.
Speaker 5: This, Southie. You seen this before.
Speaker 4: I don't know, cap'n.
Speaker 5: What is it? You know what it is? Where'd you
get it?
Speaker 4: I can't help you, capt'n. I'm sorry. Maybe later sometime.
Speaker 5: No, look, Southie, you know I won't take an answer
like that. What is it? Sergeant? Would you step over
here a minute? Sir? All right? Oh what do you want?
He had always? Oh? I see that's us time, Southie.
I won't bother you anymore. I know all I need
to anyway. I don't know what you're talking about. Capt'n.
I ought to hate you, Suthi, but I only feel
sorry for you what you've done. I'm going to try
to set right. But whether I can or not, you're
going to have to live with it the rest of
your life. I think I'm speaking for a lot of
good men who died because of you, Sergeant. Meet you
at the main gate in half an hour. Have our
horses saddled and packed with two days rations move out.
I find it's hard to believe Captain made you. Daggett. I.
I've always tried to think of every trooper in my
company as a real soldier. Somehow, It makes me feel
less a one myself when I find out about a
man like Private SOUTHI.
Speaker 10: I can understand that, Captain Quinch, I sympathize with you, Yes, sir,
But what do you propose to do about it? There's
nothing short of suicide. I can't allow that. I'm meeting
Sergeant Gorse at the main gate in a few minutes. Major,
I'm volunteering for this mission. He goes with me, he'll
have to volunteer too, big Wolf and ish Cheyenna, or
a mission for the entire Second Cavalry, Captain, not for
two men only.
Speaker 5: It was me those Cheyenne warriors hit. Major, was my
men I watched die. This mission belongs to b company,
to me, not to the Second Cavalry. You're putting a
terrible responsibility on me, cap'n Quinch as a volunteer. I
don't see how Major, All right, go ahead, thank you, sir. Ali.
Speaker 10: Yes, sir, I'll give you one order. You'd a return
to Fort Laramie within two weeks without fail.
Speaker 5: Or coffee guards. I could sure use it. It's hot,
I can see that. Thanks Kevin. Uh uh. This is
better than Garrison and the sergeant.
Speaker 6: Oh, it sure is nights full of stars. We had
a good dinner at Pork and chick Peas.
Speaker 5: There's coffee, is hot, there's plenty of it.
Speaker 6: Got a big fire going here, lots of wood. There's
nothing wrong with this, Kevin, except for one little thing.
Speaker 5: Maybe? What's that? Sergeant?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 5: Toddally worth mentioning, Oh, go ahead, speak up.
Speaker 6: Well from all the sign we've seen today, I yes,
we're smack in the middle of about four shy and
war parties.
Speaker 3: Oh.
Speaker 5: I think you're right, Sergeant.
Speaker 6: Of course, I don't know for sure, but with this
bonfire we got going, I got a sneaky idea of
them engines just might catch on to our being here
sooner or later, A might.
Speaker 5: Sorry you came along, sageant, Why volunteered? Interesting mission?
Speaker 3: You said?
Speaker 5: Yeah? I also said we we might get killed, didn't I?
He didn't say how. I don't know how, Sergeant. I
bet I could tell you not interested we get killed.
This mission will be a failure.
Speaker 6: I say, I hadn't thought of that. Now that'd be
a dog gone shame, wouldn't he cant it would? I
can just see all them generals back in Washington, sitting
around a big shiny table saying that don fool Captain,
that don food sergeant couldn't accomplish a simple little old mission.
Speaker 5: What's the cavalry comment to you? That's what they'll be seeing.
Throw some wood on the fire. Go us you're closest, sure,
Captain quaints, Yeah, they're here all around us. Step back
to the fire real slow. If they can see anything tall,
they can see we ain't armed. They wouldn't show themselves
this close if they didn't know that they're coming in, Captain,
stand steady, Sergeant, No sudden movements. Sure some fine way
for the cavalry to go engine hunting. We found them,
didn't we. What happens now, that's not entirely up to us,
Sergeant easy now sure z la hood now ye he
hallo you lo d ish lainya he i j o
n what's he saying? He says he'll take us to
Big Wolf all right, He says, the chief wouldn't want
to miss the torture before they kill us. You uh,
you wake gorse who could do any sleeping tied up
like this? And he'll be done soon. I just ain't
looking forward to today, Kip. At least we'll get out
of this tepee. You know, this is the first time
I was ever inside one. I ain't missed the thing.
I don't know. TP can be pretty nice when you
got a fire going in, a buffalo robe to wrap
up in.
Speaker 6: Maybe some antelope state for breakfast, jug of spring water,
maybe a woman.
Speaker 5: To do all the work. You're spoiled, gorse rotten, spoiled. Well,
it ain't the frontier life, did it, Captain? I can
tell you that I never should have left home. Oh oh, varlaa.
He says, they're ready for us. Sergeant, oh Java, when
was that Big Wolf hasn't returned. They've decided not to
wait for him. But Captain, is our only chance I
could have talked to Big Wolf, not these other warriors.
Not even worth trying. Ish, honey, he's gonna cut us loose.
Why not with a half hundred braves out there. We
ain't going no place. He can tie him, man up
offul tire. I ain't even sure I can walk a
leah a huh, let's go, sergeant, Sure, sergeant, what is it?
Big Wolf? He's back? Thank Hiven for that. It's a
chance at least there he is. Say he looks like
a chief doing here. He does Captain Quince. Hello, Big Wolf,
my people are ready for your death. I know we
allowed ourselves to be captured, Big Wolf. This I do
not understand. I wanted to see you. I wanted to
bring you something. White soldier has brought shame and dishonor
to my people and to me. You're speaking of your
son's grave. White soldier come at night, left my son's
body on ground.
Speaker 12: Yes, and he stole this from your son's grave, the
totem totem of my clan.
Speaker 5: The white soldier did this to dishonor you, Big Wolf,
Cheyenne recover honor in war and by killing you. Let
me say something first, Big Wolf, it was neither of
us did this thing. It was a soldier who was
weak and foolish and bad. This soldier has dishonored me
as well as you. We do not want war with
your people. Who is soldier. His name's Suthie.
Speaker 12: Give him to me.
Speaker 5: No, I can't do that.
Speaker 12: Then you must die.
Speaker 5: You have already killed eight soldiers, Big Wolf. Soon many
soldiers will come, more soldiers than you have Braves. Give
me Soothie so you can punish him. He must be punished.
He must die, Big Wolf, when you wake in the
morning and step outside your lodge, what do you see?
Tell me, I see the sun on the land, morning shadows,
bright mountains, And if you could not see all this,
it would not be good. The white soldier Soothie has
already been punished, Big Wolf, by you. It is not enough, No,
not by me, by your warriors in the fight. He
is blind, Big Wolf, blind blind for the rest of
his life. His punishment will never stop. You are brave
men to come here with the totem. There must be
no war between our people.
Speaker 12: The thing is done.
Speaker 5: Seven of my warriors died in fight.
Speaker 3: It is enough.
Speaker 5: We ride back in peace. Yes, then we've won, Big Wolf.
We've both won.
Speaker 2: Fort Laramie is produced and directed by Norman MacDonald and
stars Raymond Byrd as lee Quin's captain of cavalry, with
Vic Perron as Sergeant Gorse. The script was specially written
for Fort Laramie by John Master, with sound patterns by
Bill James and Ray Kemper musical supervision by Amarigo Marino.
Featured in the cast were Sam Edwards, Harry Bartel, Jack Moyles,
Jack Crusian, Howard Culver, and Vivi.
Speaker 3: Janas Company tension dismiss.
Speaker 2: Next week another transcribed story of the Northwest Frontier and
the troopers who fought under Lee Quince, Captain of Cavalry.
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